Tag: Tumi Molekane
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Stogie T’s Rebirth Is Kool
“I have more faith in the music than I do in the PR and in the imaging,” says Stogie T frankly. “I think people, once they hear the music, and that’s if they care to, it’ll all make sense. They’ll go ‘oooh, okay, so he’s not gone!’ Because the values are still the same; we…
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#iWrite | Press Release For Stogie T’s New Album
I got to write words to accompany the latest project from Tumi Molekane’s press run.
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Tumi Molekane For Sunday Times…
I wrote an article on South African emcee Tumi Molekane for the Sunday Times’ Lifestyle section which got published yesterday. In it, we discuss the process behind making his disarming body of art, Return Of The King, and speak about the artists he assembled to make it. Tumi also shares his views about South African Hip Hop,…
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Tumi Molekane – Happy Birthday
Those of us who exist inside the matrix of unremitting on-line presence and social network interaction would’ve undoubtedly bore witness – wittingly or otherwise – to a week-long spectacle in which 140-character and longer analyses of Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Big Sean’s “Control” trended among hip hop heads and hangers-on. I found this critique by Spin Mag…
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Reason – No Sleep (Remix)
On the 8th of June, 2013, rap supremo Reason stepped in front of a fully-packed hall at Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto for his Redubull Beat Battle set. Backed by his trustworthy assemblage of DJ ID on decks and forward-thinking producer 37MPH on the MPC, he went through songs with the angst of the…
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Picking dreams among nightmares
Their stage act resembles an inside joke; they play tricks on the audience, a wry sense of humour underlying the whole scenario. The guitarist will sommer play a lick off of a well-known song of theirs (‘76’ and ‘People of the light‘ come to mind) before bouncing right back into material from their most recent…